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A Brief Reflection of the November Morning you Left - J.P. Legarte
Stained breaths punctuated the ends of our sentences while echoed teardrops dripped down our mirror bodies. I opened the kitchen window...
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Jul 28, 20211 min read
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I do not Understand - A.N.
I don't understand Why little children cry at playgrounds Why their small fists, the size of small rocks clench in childish frustration....
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Jul 28, 20211 min read
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A haiku to all the Johns - Dane Lyn
grave dirt eyes awake ichor lips stealing breath from the mouth of a skull BIOGRAPHY: Dane Lyn (they/them) is an educator, poet, and...
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Jul 25, 20211 min read
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Shrill Music at a CD Signing (with the cast of a popular musical) - Frank De Canio
I went to see Der Rosenkavalier’s soprano sitting with the other cast for whom I would never withhold due cheers. But my enthusiasm...
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Jul 22, 20211 min read
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To my Younger Self - Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon
love your smooth skin, your rounded belly, wonky smile and crazy curls. you’ll never be as beautiful again although you do not know it...
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Jul 21, 20211 min read
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A Childhood Tattoo - Amit Parmessur
No. No. Why are you talking like that? My childhood wasn’t a boring one. It had animals, still alive in my memories, in perfect order....
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Jul 20, 20212 min read
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The Last Supper before the Diet - Adrian Slonaker
I tap my patella and scratch the embryo of a hole in the right knee of faded grey jeans, the way I'd gingerly rip my skin off if it...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read
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The Final Straw - Alex Andy Phuong
The final straw Before an outburst Of emotion. A cathartic Moment in time. Environmental protection - An urgent issue That citizens and...
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Jul 17, 20211 min read
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A Soul Thinned to Nothingness - Najeeb Yusuf Ubandiya
If you look to your left, there’s a soul Huddling under the blanket of its Civil War- Abandoned cramps of silence rolling Side to side...
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Jul 14, 20211 min read
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Enter or Egress - Edward Lee
I wake up in a room full of doors, floor to ceiling, wall to wall, nothing but doors, and no handle on a single one of them. This isn’t...
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Jul 11, 20212 min read
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A (Late) Eulogy to the Stars - Sahitra Bhat
It is difficult to believe that there was a time when people saw constellations in the sky. Our feeble attempts to replicate the glory of...
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Jul 9, 20211 min read
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We Don't Fall - Strider Marcus Jones
We don’t fall, we learn and grow: there is beauty in mistakes we make and light in sadness. We build a wall around our glow, and sleep to...
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Jul 9, 20211 min read
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Three Pictures - Ben Horrobin
Half frame disposable, colour A deer Center frame Blue ink on the back reading New Hampshire 92’ - Poorly compressed .JPG He wears a...
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Jul 7, 20211 min read
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Art Criticism 1 - Ben Horrobin
Eight inch statue in a plexiglass case Set in a recess near the elevators of what could be a bank or oil and gas building A pig painted...
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Jul 7, 20211 min read
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Hope - Vedant Panamgipalli
Does hope now remain in the air between trees? When the world only cares about that which it sees. As our skies Slowly die Do the rich...
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Jul 5, 20211 min read
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This is my last letter to you - Yuu Ikeda
This is my last letter to you. You are always curled up in my crumbled heart. Like a mystic moon, like a wingless angel, you are always...
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Jul 1, 20211 min read
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